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Dr. Matthew Quest
The Courage to Write the Truth: Where and When Bruce Dixon Enters History
21 Aug 2019
Bruce entered history as the most distinguished critic of the Black political class during the Age of Obama. “Bruce had the courage to tell the truth.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Protest and the Corporate Media
21 Aug 2019
The corporate media are steadfast partners with the United States government and faithfully follow the party line on foreign policy issues. “The networks and the newspapers can seldom be believed.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Blacks Don’t Blame Immigrants for the Boss’s Crimes
22 Aug 2019
Large proportions of African Americans registered strong opposition to building a wall on the southern border, keeping undocumented people in limbo, and mass deportations. “Most Blacks do not blame immigrants for high Black unemployment rates or for depressed wage levels.”
A.C. Thompson
“Dirtbag,” “Savages,” “Subhuman”: A Border Agent’s Hateful Career and the Crime That Finally Ended It
28 Aug 2019
The agent joked about how tasty Guatemalan migrants can be if they are properly “fried” through the use of Tasers. "Border Patrol agent Matthew Bowen had been investigated for years before he used his 4,000-pound truck to assault a fleeing migrant." It was late November 2017, and Matthew Bowen, a…
Tao Leigh Goffe
The Precarity of Black Motherhood
28 Aug 2019
Jordan Peele’s “Us” depicts the terros face by Black mothers in a way that owes as much to Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” as it does to classic Hollywood horror. “This is America, a human chain of murderers, stretched from sea to shining sea, a fulfillment of Manifest Destiny.”
Kevin P. Donovan and Emma Park
Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah
28 Aug 2019
Kenya’s poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery. “The emergent regimes of indebtedness have been called ‘catastrophic,’ a ‘crisis,’ and a major ‘social problem.’”
Gerald A. Perreira
An Axis of Hope, Dignity and Defiance stands up to the Triumvirate of Evil
28 Aug 2019
The #No More Trump campaign is a defiant appeal to stand with the people of Venezuela, to oppose Trump’s war of attrition against this heroic sovereign nation. “Maduro, Diaz-Canal and Ortega have been leaders for human advancement, dignity and progress.” We will never accept the Mark of the Beast
Carl Beijer
The Quiet Death of the “White Bernie Bro” Attack
28 Aug 2019
A majority of Sanders supporters are non-white, in contrast to all the other top tier candidates, including Kamala Harris. “Enthusiasm for another Sanders run has been remarkably inflected by race.”
Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik
Neoliberal Capitalism at a Dead End
28 Aug 2019
Donald Trump’s resort to protectionism is recognition of having reached this cul-de-sac. “Neoliberal capitalism has no vision for reinventing itself.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Cheryl R. Rodriguez, Dzodzi Tsikata, and Akosua Adomako Ampofo’s “Transatlantic Feminisms”
28 Aug 2019
It is critical for Black feminists to be passionately involved in creating a global community of voices. “Black feminism is far more than an academic endeavor.”